• Biography

    Keen On

    Ten Days in June: On a Pivotal Moment in Barack Obama’s “Battle” for America

    By Keen On  October 27, 2022
    Rock'n'roll

    “He Was Savile Row, Man.” On the Inimitable Style of Charlie Watts, Rock N’ Roll Drummer

    By Paul Sexton  October 26, 2022
    Keen On

    On Messi, Ronaldo, and the Radical Remaking of the World’s Game Over the Last 20 Years

    By Keen On  October 26, 2022
    Keen On

    A History of the Sassoons—One of the World’s Great Global Merchant Families

    By Keen On  October 26, 2022
    Dance

    How Martha Graham Was Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky

    By Neil Baldwin  October 25, 2022
    Geniuses

    Gray Area for Gray Matter: On the Time Einstein’s Brain was Stolen

    By Kathryn and Ross Petras  October 25, 2022
    The Writing Life

    The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

    By Devoney Looser  October 25, 2022
    American History

    “A Solemn Battle between Good and Evil.” Charles Sumner’s Radical, Compelling Message of Abolition

    By Timothy Shenk  October 24, 2022
    The Literary Life

    David Maraniss on the Afterlife of Jim Thorpe

    By The Literary Life  October 21, 2022
    Dance

    How Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Revolutionized Dance

    By Rupert Christiansen  October 19, 2022
    Pop Music

    “A Sicko Producer’s Dream.” On the Infectious Textures of Britney Spears’s Shifting Voice

    By Natasha Lasky  October 17, 2022
    Keen On

    On the Life and Work of Stevie Nicks

    By Keen On  October 14, 2022
    Keen On

    What Makes a “Great” Banker? The Story of Edmond Safra, One of the Greatest Bankers of the 20th Century

    By Keen On  October 14, 2022
    Colonialism

    The Naturalist’s Gaze: What Charles Darwin Saw in Tahiti

    By Diana Preston  October 13, 2022
    Painters

    The Waning Years of Edward Hopper

    By Richard Lacayo  October 13, 2022
    Keen On

    What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father

    By Keen On  October 13, 2022
    Keen On

    Examining Charles Darwin’s Soul: A Singular Case of Biophilia

    By Keen On  October 12, 2022
    Supreme Court

    Nina Totenberg on Her Long Friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    By Nina Totenberg  October 6, 2022
    Sexuality

    Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

    By Katherine Rundell  October 5, 2022
    Etiquette

    The Pulse of American Life: On Emily Post’s Evolving Legacy

    By Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning  October 5, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    For Us All Act I: On Fred Korematsu’s Conviction—and the Fight to Overturn it 40 Years Later

    By Audiobook Break  October 4, 2022
    Painting

    What the Word “Beauty” Meant to Helen Frankenthaler

    By Douglas Dreishpoon  October 3, 2022
    Poetry

    The Found Poems of Goliarda Sapienza

    By Chiara Barzini  September 28, 2022
    Diaries

    Annie Ernaux on the “Infinite Lack” in Our Search for Love

    By Annie Ernaux  September 27, 2022
    Architecture

    How an Architect’s Endless Pursuit of Artistic Perfection Drove Him To Despair

    By Charlotte Van den Broeck  September 26, 2022
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